Hello everyone. I'd like to take this opportunity to give a huge thanks to the FML community, which has given me such overwhelming support the past few days. At last count, I had almost 70 messages of support from people all over the world. WOW!!! I'll write you all back individually, but it will probably take me a few days. I trully am grateful beyond words. Zoe is doing great. As far as she's concerned, she never left. She promptly put all her toys, which I had taken out when I was looking for her, back in their proper places ("HEY, who took the toy mouse out of my food dish?!"). She slept at the foot of my bed last night, she scratched at the bathroom door this morning, and sat next to me while I did my morning scales on the piano. She attacked my can of Mountain Dew during lunch, and tried her darnest to sneak out the door when I left for class. Some things never change... :) You know what? Everything Zoe does now seems brand new to me, as though I had just gotten her. Funny how we can inadvertantly tae our most precious things for granted. However, I seem to be suffering from some sort of post-traumatic stress syndrome. Every time Zoe is out of sight for more than 10 minutes, I start feeling anxious. In fact, last night I was convinced she had gotten out again. Knowing for sure that she couldn't have gotten out of the front door, I convinced myself that she had found another way out, and spent the next hour checking over the entire apartment for a hole I knew darn well didn't exist. Eventually, Zoe came out of some hiding spot with a look on her face that clearly said, "What is this moron up to now?" Once again, thanks so much to everyone. When I wrote in the initial post that I hadn't felt better writting about her dissappearance, I realize now that I was wrong. It did make me feel better, and I can't thank you all enough. And, is it a coincidence that Zoe and I were reunited the day after my initial post? Hmmmmm....... Markos and Zoe ("zzzzzzzzzzz") p.s. Incidentally, after I first realized she was missing, I looked online to see if anyone had posted a list of things to do if their fuzzies escaped, yet I couldn't find anything. Many of the posts I received had excellent suggestions, and I wish I would've had them during my initial search (I always felt that I wasn't doing everything I could). Therefore, if a "how to find your runaway ferret" page does not, indeed, exist, I would love to help put one together (compiling the suggestions and writing the HTML code). Also, the page could have many of the "lost ferrets returning home" stories that gave me the inspiration I needed to keep from losing all hope. All I would need would be a home for the page, since I don't have space on any server. If anyone is interested in the idea, please let me know. E-Mail: [log in to unmask] (ignore the convoluted address on the message header.) [Moderator's note: A web page would be great, though a plain text document would probably have wider distribution. If you do get together some text, yes, that could be stored on LISTSERV here. Lots of stuff in some past FMLs to help... if I only knew where to look. BIG] [Posted in FML issue 1585]